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#31

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Removing limits on Stunts ...

Last post by Foxpup - January 16, 2026, 10:56:08 PM

Here is a freebie for those taking part in the survey. A mystery mod. Better you fasten your seatbelt before you try this one! 

Amazing, you actually fixed the sphere explosion bug! Did you actually figure out the underlying cause or just exclude sphere primitives from the bounding box calculation? EDIT: I was wrong.

As for the camera mod itself, it is somewhat limiting that the camera cannot be rotated at all while set to 90 degrees. It won't even follow the car's orientation. Gimbal lock bug? Also, some custom cars (eg the Silverado monster truck) will crash with an out-of-memory error while attempting to load dashboard graphics. This seems to mainly affect cars with a large dast/dasm covering most or all of the screen.

But other than those issues, the mod seems to work fine. At least, I didn't encounter any other weird surprises.

#32

Chat - Misc / Re: Association game

Last post by CTG - January 16, 2026, 09:39:25 PM

rubber (just like I learned how you say "condom" in English playing Leisure Suit Larry 1 )

rubbish

#33

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Removing limits on Stunts ...

Last post by HerrNove - January 16, 2026, 03:58:39 PM

Here is a freebie for those taking part in the survey. A mystery mod. Better you fasten your seatbelt before you try this one! 

#34

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Removing limits on Stunts ...

Last post by Duplode - January 16, 2026, 01:31:08 AM

I, too, don't see a problem, any advantage should be completely negligible. (I also expect visual OWOOT validation of laps will keep being done with the standard angle as it exists now, so there shouldn't be an issue on that front either.)

#35

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Removing limits on Stunts ...

Last post by HerrNove - January 16, 2026, 12:26:48 AM

being able to zoom out more would be cool too.

My prototype can do that already. It crashes sometimes, hence it will remain a prototype, but the unlocked zoom is functional and will be integrated in the upcoming "official" version.

The free-roaming camera is also on my own wish list, but whether I will ever come to build it, is still uncertain.

#36

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Removing limits on Stunts ...

Last post by MiDiaN - January 16, 2026, 12:19:05 AM

I thought it was already at max 90dgr angle. I don't see a problem with this.
Honestly, having a free-roaming camera not attached to car would be great, and being able to zoom out more would be cool too.

#37

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Removing limits on Stunts ...

Last post by dreadnaut - January 15, 2026, 10:37:25 PM

I can imagine a slight advantage when checking if the car is inside or outside a tile, but it feels very small.

#38

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: Removing limits on Stunts ...

Last post by alanrotoi - January 15, 2026, 09:25:25 PM

Maybe I don't get the full implications but I don't see a problem here.

#39

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Removing limits on Stunts came...

Last post by HerrNove - January 15, 2026, 09:05:43 PM

Hi guys,

as you know, Stunts does not allow to precisely point the camera vertically: the max elevation angle is limited at 84.375 degrees*.

Suppose one can build a mod removing this bound and allow a 90° angle**: would you be OK with such mod existing? In my experience, this would give a slight advantage for competitive racing: it would allow to more precisely compare partial times between replays in points where the car is flying above ground. On the other hand, such advantage is probably negligible in the grand scheme of things, and there are already repldump-derived tools that can be used for similar purposes.

* Internally defined as 240/256 of a right angle.
** Writing the mod itself is not trivial because it requires to repair a bug in the way Stunts handles the camera geometry. But I can probably build such a thing in short time.

#40

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: New mod: extended line of ...

Last post by HerrNove - January 14, 2026, 06:52:51 PM

Thanks for your report!

You're welcome! After some further testing, I've discovered that the crashes only occur if you set the DOSBox CPU core to "dynamic".

An interesting find! It does not change my plans, since Stunts is an incredibly stable game for 1990 standards and it would be a pity to make it crash sometimes, but I would not have suspected that the CPU core setting can have an impact.